With the growth of social networks in recent years, user generated data such as videos, photos and blogs have become an important source of information in our life. However, user’s data are often locked in by a few giant application service providers (ASP), such as Facebook, Twitter, Tencent, etc.... read more

The P versus NP problem is one of the most challenging intellectual problems of our time. A fundamental goal of complexity theory is to provide classifications according to the inherent difficulty of computational problems. I will describe some recent advances in the study of counting problems.... read more

Raymond J. Mooney is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of over 150 published research papers, primarily in the areas of machine learning and... read more